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The World of Minibeasts

Beetles in Bags: The Larva

 

Opened "bag"

The leaf roll continues to wilt and changes its color. In it a tiny larva hatches from the egg, that feeds on the leaf that it lives in. During the summer, it grows. 

Although José regularly found several eggs in a leaf roll, he never found more than a single larva. 

We do not know what happens to the other eggs. They may serve as food to the larva surviving, or they may probably just rot. 


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Strength Eggs Rolling
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Photograph by José Verkest, text by Maria Pfeifer